Tezar 2 months ago

"50% of GEO links contained cleartext IP traffic...unencrypted cellular backhaul traffic...cleartext call and text contents, job scheduling and industrial control systems for utility infrastructure, military asset tracking, inventory management for global retail stores, and in-flight wifi" https://satcom.sysnet.ucsd.edu/docs/dontlookup_ccs25_fullpaper.pdf

Tezar 2 months ago

Well, you can't have means of production on the blockchain, so hard to fight goverments on this.

CNBC

Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia in 'highly exceptional' move

The Dutch government has invoked the Goods Availability Act to take control of Nexperia, a Chinese-owned semiconductor maker based in the Netherlands.

Tezar 2 months ago

It's good day to #kite

Tezar 2 months ago

"...anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." Why do I feel called out?

Structured Procrastination

Tezar 2 months ago

The Faroe Islands - can't shake off the romantic imagination of being there for a season or two as a lighthouse keeper.

Faroes

Tezar 3 months ago

Did some late night coding with SVG for work project (traded work time to be with the kids in the afternoon ). It never cease to amaze me how much you can do with plain svg. Only bummer is no auto wrapping text, but still...

Tezar 3 months ago

Use surveillance as a service they said, it will be fun&easy they said.

Evanston RoundTable

Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras - Evanston RoundTable

Private surveillance vendor Flock Safety reinstalled all of its stationary license plate cameras in Evanston that had previously been removed, appa...

Tezar 3 months ago

Oh boy, I sure do hope he isn't from UK 😄 "A black piece does not improve the number of moves, most of the time. Its existence only benefits the number of moves if it increases White's number of moves"

lichess.org

Why a reachable position can have at most 218 playable moves

I hope that the title is unambiguous enough now and I wholeheartedly apologize to all the people who thought that it was about 218 move long games!...

Tezar 3 months ago

Interesting AI usage, pass a photo/imge, get parametric model back.

Spectral Labs

Introducing SGS-1

Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD.

Tezar 3 months ago

Like this one View quoted note → View quoted note →

Tezar 3 months ago

Concrete infused with cells to retain energy (as in battery). Looks like brutalist architecture is back on the menu, boys! https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(25)00409-6

Tezar 3 months ago

Are there any accounts reporting more from Nepal, Brazil, Northern Ireland, or other countries/places where things are brewing but mainstream media usually picks up only the aftermath (and only after some heavy lenses). Would be interested in on-site accounts from UA as well. #asknostr

Tezar 3 months ago

I knew "disposable" vapes have rechargable batteries, but thay also go ARM? - 24MHz Coretex M0+ - 24KiB of Flash Storage - 3KiB of Static RAM

BogdanTheGeek

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape

Someone

Tezar 3 months ago

Apparently, the private network subnet 192.168.x.x was originally used merely as an example in some manual—but so many people followed it that it was easier to formalize it than to change it. https://lists.ding.net/othersite/isoc-internet-history/2009/oct/msg00000.html

Tezar 3 months ago

What a neat idea! View quoted note →

Tezar 3 months ago

TIL how Japan helped selfie to become a thing

tokyo cowboy

PURIKURA: the grandmother of the selfie — tokyo cowboy

Learn how Purikura, Japan’s iconic photo booth craze of the 90s, shaped selfie culture, inspired front-facing cameras, and remains a staple of Ja...

Tezar 3 months ago

Will try to chat with barista next time

The Pudding

30 minutes with a stranger

Watch hundreds of strangers talk for 30 minutes, and track how their moods change

Tezar 4 months ago

Never would have thought that osmosis can produce economically harvestable levels of the energy.

the Guardian

Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant – so what is it and how does it work?

The site in Fukuoka is only the second power plant of its type in the world, harnessing the power of osmosis to run a desalination plant in the city

Tezar 4 months ago

Cool attack using stenography to trick LLMs with hidden prompts

The Trail of Bits Blog

Weaponizing image scaling against production AI systems

In this blog post, we’ll detail how attackers can exploit image scaling on Gemini CLI, Vertex AI Studio, Gemini’s web and API interfaces, Googl...

Tezar 6 months ago

Interestingly the mentioned "sense of wonder" was nice talking point at recent kindergarten party too.

Backyard Coffee And Jazz In Kyoto, Japan

A "magical" experience, and what we get when we let people pursue their passions